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Study
Guide
PC Connections:
- Know how to "cable
up" a PC, monitor, keyboard and mouse
Inside the PC:
Have a basic understanding of the
definitions of the following terms and what their function is for the PC
- Power supply (internal)
- Mother board
- Fan
- Expansion slots
- Network card
- Video card
- Hard drive
- Floppy drive
- CD ROM
- RAM
- ROM
- Processor
Computer Care - hardware:
- What are biggest threats to
hardware?
- How can you prevent or address
them?
Computer Care - software:
- Plug ins - Adobe Acrobat,
video/audio enhancers, WinZip
- PM (preventative maintenance) -
Windows Updates, Anti-virus, Adaware, Pop-Up blocker
- Where's the best place to put
the install program for a plug in? Can the install program be
removed once the actual plug in is installed?
- It's not enough just to have
anti-virus software installed on your PC. What two other procedures
must you do to make anti-virus effective?
File Storage:
- Relative sizes of kilobytes,
megabyes and gigabytes. Which ones are bigger?
- A basic understanding of
various storage medium, the advantages and disadvantages of each
(floppy disks, zip disks, flash drive, CDs, hard drives)
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